Foreign Ministry reacted to the removal of accounts of the Russian media on YouTube
Moscow agitating the relevant international institutions to respond to the Fact that American video hosting Youtube has deleted the account of the Crimean TV channel "Crimea 24" and 2 x Russian news agencies Anna News and News Front. About it reported in the report of the Ministry of foreign
Moscow agitating the relevant international institutions to respond to the Fact that American video hosting Youtube has deleted the account of the Crimean TV channel "Crimea 24" and 2 x Russian news agencies Anna News and News Front. About it reported in the report of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. It is noted that the actions regarding Youtube accounts in the media it was announced may 20.
"We urge the relevant international institutions and human rights NGOs to respond to these egregious facts," according to the report.
TV channel "Crimea 24" is one of the most popular information sources on the Peninsula. It is included in the largest Crimean media holding "TV and radio company" Crimea ", consisting of five TV channels, 3 radio stations, an information portal and online website. The team of the TV channel "Crimea 24" traditionally highlights the most current major information occasions this Russian region.
the foreign Ministry stressed that in the result of account deletion "Crimea 24" on the platform "Youtube" about 30 thousand subscribers lost access to the video had ten million views." The American platform has taken restrictive measures under an invented pretext of " violation of the rules of hosting."
That "Youtube" has not produced any convincing evidence to explain their actions, and the fact that the treatment team of the TV channel until now remains without a response is invalid", - told in the Ministry.
"Consider the actions of video-hosting as another act of discrimination against the Russian-speaking media from the US-controlled Internet platforms, which systematically resort to any censorship of content in the Russian language ", - underlined in the message.
the foreign Ministry recalled that on April 17, the American Corporation Google has been blocked page Federal news Agency and associated account in Youtube, for the reason that have been removed tens of thousands of documentary films and reports of the Agency. First, in January 2019, under the false pretext of the moderators of Facebook was deleted more than five hundred pages associated with Russia, and among them the materials of the news Agency Sputnik.
"This policy of the American state is a flagrant infractions of international obligations of the United States to maintain free and unhindered access to information, freedom of media and expression," according to the report.
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